This time I double checked to make sure it was the MARVEL data base. Yep, you're right! I just looked it up again. I don't think he has been considered being that low since he was upgraded by Magneto. Marvel has Colossus officially as in the Class 100 category. Can you find something that states that he's class 100? He certainly SHOULD be!!! Colossus was a 70 tonner more when he was a teenager. I thought so too, but I actually looked it up in Marvel's data base before I posted that last comment.
#Unstoppable colossus trial
Weinstein's trial is one of several with #MeToo connections that have begun or are about to begin as the fifth anniversary of the movement's biggest moment passes, including the rape trial of “That ‘70s Show” actor Danny Masterson just down the hall from Weinstein’s and the New York sexual assault civil trial of Kevin Spacey.įollow AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton on Twitter: twitter.Said: said: said: actually Colossus is a 100 tonner. Weinstein’s notoriety and his place in our culture at the center of the firestorm which is the #MeToo movement is real, and we’re trying to do everything we can to avoid having a trial when there will be a swirl of adverse publicity toward him," Werksman said at a pretrial hearing. “This case is unique," Werksman said at a pretrial hearing. Weinstein's lawyers lost a bid to have the proceedings delayed over the film, with the judge rejecting their argument that publicity surrounding it would prejudice a potential jury against him. The film “She Said," which fictionalizes the work of two New York Times reporters and their bombshell stories on Weinstein, is set to be released midway through the trial on Nov. They have expressed worries that the movies may play a role in trial. Weinstein will also be represented by different lawyers in Los Angeles, Alan Jackson and Mark Werksman. Only a dozen reporters, including two sketch artists, will be allowed into the small courtroom each day, compared to several dozen in New York.
Weinstein will not be visible to any media horde or protesters outside as he was in Manhattan, as he'll be ushered into the courtroom straight from jail - once he's changed form his prison garb into a suit - across a short hallway where no cameras are allowed that could capture him. The Los Angeles trial is likely to be far less of a spectacle than the New York proceedings, and not merely because it's a sequel and Weinstein is already serving a long sentence.įoot traffic is sparse and there is no grand entrance at the downtown LA courthouse that's hosting the trial. “His stature changed, he was no longer the king of Oscar, which was really what made him vulnerable,” Masters said. At a pre-trial hearing, the chauffeur who drove Weinstein around Los Angeles testified that even he was allowed to take as much as $1,000 in cash in Weinstein’s name from the front desk of the hotel where the mogul was staying.īy the time stories about him in The New York Times and The New Yorker in October of 2017 brought about his downfall, Weinstein's power to seemingly will films to win awards had diminished, and his company had fallen into financial trouble. Like most of the incidents in the indictments, they happened under the guise of business meetings at luxury hotels in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles, which Weinstein used as his California headquarters and where he could be seen during awards season and throughout the year. It was during Oscars week in 2013, when Jennifer Lawrence would win an Academy Award for the Weinstein Co.'s “Silver Linings Playbook" and Quentin Tarantino would win for writing the company's “Django Unchained,” that four of the 11 alleged crimes took place. He was the King of Hollywood in New York and LA.” “He had this huge Golden Globes party that was always well beyond capacity when he was in his heyday.
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"He was a creature of New York, but he was also a creature of Los Angeles," said Kim Masters, editor at large for The Hollywood Reporter and a longtime observer of the movie industry. were based in New York, where Weinstein lived and did business, but that didn't diminish his presence in Hollywood. Miramax and its successor The Weinstein Co. He had unmatched success, pushing films like “Shakespeare in Love” and “The Artist” to best picture wins and becoming among the most thanked men ever during Oscar acceptance speeches. Starting in the 1990s, Weinstein, through the company Miramax that he ran with his brother, was an innovator in running broad and aggressive campaigns promoting Academy Award nominees. Four more women will be allowed to take the stand to give accounts of Weinstein sexual assaults that did not lead to charges, but which prosecutors hope will show jurors he had a propensity for committing such acts.
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